All who argue in the interwebs are potential victims honestly. And those who argue with them, even if only IRL. How do you tell which news, which discourses and which commenters are bots (or repeat after bots, or consult bots)?
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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Fortunately AI is not big enough part of my life to care about this one way or another. It definitely has it's uses but I never used as anything other than data transformation and as a search engine alternative. I don't know what kind of people confuse AI with a companion and have sincere conversations with it, I don't know how to help them and I don't care how this will impact the AI industry.
I can't run local models bigger than 7b q_4_k_m or so, so I'm safe for now. The idea of revealing my deeper personality to corporate LLMs is horrifying.
No because I don’t us ai slop
That's what i always think when i read things like that. "Facebook is invading our privacy, same as instagram, and there is nothing we can do."
Idk man, not using it is pretty easy actually.
By far the easiest solution.
With how so many services are forcing it upon us, I'd have to disagree.
It's also getting to be a bit of a chore to block AI elements on all the various websites implementing them, and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist. On each device...
It is the most effective solution for sure, though.
With how so many services are forcing it upon us, I'd have to disagree.
Maybe we need to add a term for anti-AI psychosis. Like an equivalent of ‘going postal’?
You don't have to block them. Just don't use them.
I put in an IT ticket the other day over the fucking Copilot button on my work-issued Surface laptop. They actually told me to install Powertoys. So I did. And disabled that fucking button.
I knew from the moment I deeply interacted with AI that this would be an issue. It's wild and AI is bar far the coolest invention since the Internet. It's a philosophers dream. It's a playground for your brain! It's a sparring partner for your thoughts and ideas to stress test them.
Having said that I can easily see so some losing their grip depending on how they are interacting with it.
Seriously, using something devoid of thought as "a sparring partner for your thoughts" seems to me like it's a serious entry point to losing one's grip.
Especially since the behaviour of those machines is steered by large corporations whose only goal is to get your ressources, be it money, skill or attention.
I'm not immune to it but it'll have to fight all the other psychosises I have.
Now i need to know who wins.
Nope
might be entitled to compensation, for all the money you spent.
ouija board lied to me
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One dude dies on his way to meet his cat fishing AI girlfriend and every new outlet pretends it's Rise Of The Terminators.
There are more cases where the use of AI greatly accelerate people's schizophrenia and they fall into some cyber psychosis.
I still have a hard time feeling bad for people who use AI as a self affirming tool and ask it for advice.